Post here to shower the ImageMagick developers with praise or discuss how you could have done a better job if you developed ImageMagick. Or talk about how Photoshop is better than ImageMagick. Even complain about how no one answered your postings in the Users forum. Venting and musings welcomed here.

If it was a conscious decision to do that, then that's your prerogative. There is some value in preserving the commit messages - so if it wasn't a conscious decision someone (possibly myself) could investigate how to get those commit messages back.

Also, it would be a good idea if you could specify how Pull Requests should be done. The two branches in https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick have a common origin of 4 years ago but both have been maintained? So should PRs be done for one, and then have the change copied across by whoever is doing the merge or should two matching PRs be made?

We have a lot of commits that don't have a commit message. And the 'git-svn-id' junk is just there for 'git svn' to keep track of the revisions. ImageMagick has two branches IM7 (master) and IM6 (ImageMagick-6). Pull request should be made to both the branches since we actively maintain both of them.

All of the developers hold full time jobs, besides trying to fix bugs on IM. So they have little time to do this all at once. Be kind and patient. You will get more from either helping or giving positive feedback and not displaying such a negative attitude.

fmw42 wrote:All of the developers hold full time jobs, besides trying to fix bugs on IM. So they have little time to do this all at once. Be kind and patient. You will get more from either helping or giving positive feedback and not displaying such a negative attitude.

I'm in the same position. I do tons of open source on the side and I manage to do a whole lot better than these guys.

> I do tons of open source on the side and I manage to do a whole lot better than these guys

Moving to GIT was a step up for the ImageMagick project and addressed some of your concerns. If the projects lack other qualities you think will improve the ImageMagick development workflow, we're listening. Post them here and we will work on them as time permits.